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Posted on December 14, 2018 · The state put to death 13 men this year. That's more than half the total number of people executed in the entire country: 25. Still, the death row population — both here and nationwide — is at a historic low.

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Posted on June 29, 2018 · This looks like a year where the rule of "all politics is local" is out. The findings from the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll make it seem that "all politics is national."

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Posted on June 28, 2018 · The death row inmate argued that officials likely wouldn't be able to find a vein, and he proposed that the state instead use a firing squad or nitrogen gas. His execution proceeded with no indication of trouble injecting the drugs.

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Posted on April 25, 2018 · Erick Davila was executed Wednesday evening for a 2008 shooting at a child's birthday party that left his rival gang member's mother and 5-year-old daughter dead. His case was heard and ultimately rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court last year.

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Posted on February 23, 2018 · Instead, Thomas Bartlett Whitaker will now spend the rest of his life in prison for coordinating a 2003 ambush that left his mother and brother dead, and his father severely wounded